School House is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1986. School, teacher's house.

School House

WRENN ID
turning-gargoyle-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newark and Sherwood
Constituency
Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 April 1986
Type
School, teacher's house
Address
School House, Rhododendron Lodge Drive, Rufford
OS grid reference
SK 643 644
Coordinates
53.17312, -1.03885
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

School House is a late 19th-century building that served as both a school and a teacher's house. It is constructed of brick with patterned tile hanging and plain tile roofs, featuring ashlar dressings. The building has a brick plinth with chamfered ashlar coping, a sill band, a moulded first-floor band, and bargeboards on curved brackets. It has a single grouped ridge stack and consists of two storeys with a cross plan and four bays.

On the south front, there is a two-storey gabled bay on the left and a gabled porch on the right. The porch contains a moulded doorcase with a hood mould and a 19th-century door. To the left of the porch, there is a moulded Tudor arched doorway with a foundation stone, although the inscription is illegible. There is also a single casement window to the left and two smaller casements to the right.

The east side features a chamfered square casement below and a casement above to the left. The east gable has a double leaded sash window on the left and a chamfered pointed doorway on the right. The west gable has a single casement window. A gabled rear wing, which is single and two storeys, has a door flanked by single casements and another casement to the right, with a casement above.

Local climate

School House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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